arXiv AI

Bringing Generative Learning to Representation Learning: Self-Supervised Transfer Learning as Distribution Matching

arXiv:2502. 14424v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most self-supervised learning objectives defend against collapse but leave the target representation law unspecified.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Zero-Flow Encoders

arXiv:2602. 00797v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Flow-based methods have achieved significant success in various generative modeling tasks, capturing nuanced details within complex data distributions.

By Yakun Wang, Leyang Wang, Song Liu, Taiji Suzuki
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Unbiased Open World Regularization for Fair Self-Supervised Learning

arXiv:2607. 22149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent advances, self-supervised learning (SSL) models and Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) remain susceptible to learning spurious biases in the dataset.

By L{\'e}o Nicollier (CB, ATT), Marc Pic (ATT), Pablo Mus{\'e} (CB, IFUMI), Enric Meinhardt-Llopis (CB), Gabriele Facciolo (CB)
arXiv AI
Aug 6

Consistency-Driven Co-Evolution for Self-Supervised Cross-Representation Learning

arXiv:2608. 04926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As chart images, tabular data, and visualization code play increasingly important roles across diverse domains, cross-representation understanding across these modalities poses fundamental challenges for AI systems: the relationships across representations are inherently \textit{one-to-many}, supervision is ambiguous and costly, and model optimization lacks a principled signal that is both direction-adaptive and representation-generalizable beyond task-specific objectives.

By Xuehang Guo, Pengyuan Li, Tom Hope, Tirthankar Ghosal, Manling Li, Qingyun Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Self-Supervised Learning from Structural Invariance

arXiv:2602. 02381v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Joint-embedding self-supervised learning (SSL), the key paradigm for unsupervised representation learning from visual data, learns from invariances between semantically-related data pairs.

By Yipeng Zhang, Hafez Ghaemi, Jungyoon Lee, Shahab Bakhtiari, Eilif B. Muller, Laurent Charlin
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Anatomy-Anchored Self-Supervision: Distilling Vision Foundation Models for Invariant Ultrasound Representation

arXiv:2605. 25402v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised pre-training paradigm has gained increasing prominence for learning transferable representations in medical imaging, yet existing methods for ultrasound (US) images operate at the image or frame level, overlooking the anatomical context for clinical-aligned representation learning.

By Chunzheng Zhu, Yijun Wang, Jianxin Lin, Feng Wang, Hongwei Wang, Lei Zhao, Shengli Li, Kenli Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Is Generation Required for Data-Efficient Perception?

arXiv:2512. 08854v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: It has been hypothesized that achieving the data efficiency of human visual perception requires a generative approach in which internal representations result from inverting a decoder.

By Jack Brady, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Thomas Kipf, Simon Buchholz, Wieland Brendel